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Cisco To Acquire Ubiquisys For $310 Million

Cisco To Acquire Ubiquisys For $310 Million

By Chris Crum April 3, 2013

Cisco just announced yet another acquisition. The company announced its intent to acquire privately held Ubiquisys for $310 million in cash and employee retention incentives. Ubiquisys provides 3G and LTE small-cell technologies, and Cisco says the pick-up will further reinforce …

Cisco Announces Yet Another Acquisition: BroadHop Cisco Announces Yet Another Acquisition: BroadHop

Cisco announced today that it intends to acquire BroadHop, a provider of policy control and service management technology for carrier networks. “With global IP traffic projected to increase threefold over the next five years – after having increased eightfold over …

Cisco Announces Intent To Acquire Cariden Cisco Announces Intent To Acquire Cariden

Cisco’s acquisition spree continues as the company announced today its intent to acquire Cariden, a supplier fo network planning, design and traffic management solutions. Cisco will pay about $141 million for the company. Cisco says the acquisition will allow telecommunications …

Cisco To Acquire Cloud Networking Company Meraki Cisco To Acquire Cloud Networking Company Meraki

Cisco continues its acquisition, as the company announced that it intends to acquire Meraki (yet another cloud company). Cisco will pay about $1.2 billion in cash and retention-based incentives. Meraki is a privately held cloud networking company based in San …

Cisco Intends To Acquire Cloupia Cisco Intends To Acquire Cloupia

Cisco announced today that it intends to acquire Cloupia, a software company that automates converged data center infrastructure. The deal would extend the company’s existing data center portfolio. Cisco is paying $125 million in cash and retention-based incentives in exchange …

Cisco Acquires ThinkSmart Technologies Cisco Acquires ThinkSmart Technologies

Cisco announced today that it has acquired ThinkSmart Technologies, an Ireland-based location analytics technology company. Cisco’s Hilton Romanski had this to say about the news in a blog post: The widespread proliferation of mobile devices and services provides opportunities for …

Cisco Rebrands Collaboration Apps Cisco Rebrands Collaboration Apps
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Cisco’s Quad app has been rebranded as WebEx Social. Refinements to the app include a new unified post function that makes creating a post as easy as writing an email. Users will now also be able to collaborate using any …

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